Following up on MesoRx’s last blog post about steroid testing (you NEED to read this)

Anyone who reads my blog probably also follows Millard Baker’s blog over on MesoRx too…which is a good thing. Recently he’s been talking about a series of lab tests conducted by Body of Science (BOS), which (*as you probably know) is Billy Llewellyn’s magazine. Bill (*as you also probably know) is the author of the Anabolics series. Recently, Millard told us that some lab tests on different UG labs were conducted by BOS, and then followed up with another blog post telling us that the chain of custody was suspect:

“The steroid samples tested were tested at the request of a popular Scandinavian board and obtained on the European black market. As such, there are no guarantees that the chain of custody has been preserved. In the underground androgen black market…”

I agree but I have some additional information that may be of use…well, it calls into question the validity of the tests entirely. The tests were conducted by Body of Science writer, Ronny Tober - who is also the admin for the Body of Science message board. Everything looks good so far, right?

Wrong.

There have been numerous instances where a contributor to BOS and Bill’s book(s) - by the name of FLANKER - has contributed items for testing…and on several sites has been called out numerous times on steroid.com for not only being a source, but being a scammer as well (*link disabled):

“Jan 1, 2005 … paperbolix-pboy-flanker = banned from here, elite and lots of other places, anyone who is someone knows hes a scammer has no cred at all …”

Clearly if there is a source providing products from competing sources for testing, it brings into question the validity of the tests. And on Isteroids, it’s the same story, where Paperbolix (Flanker) has been called out for not only being a scammer, but a spammer:

“Pulling E-mail Addys off AAS BB Boards, and sending them unsolicited e-mails. If any source sends you e-mails for business there is something wrong. This guy is on many scammer lists.”

The problem here is that a lot of the people involved on the testing side of BOS (not just FLANKER) have vested financial interests in seeing certain products do poorly - therefore, the Chain of Custody (at least in my eyes) is suspect, even when someone on the BOS side gets the test products directly from the source. RediCat’s paper anabolics always tested very poorly when done by BOS/Anabolics, yet always tested fine when other people did them - during that time, no less than 2 of the BOS forum mods sold their own brand of paper anabolics.

Coincidence? What do you think?

And up until a few months ago, there were several steroid sources and labs advertising on the main page of BOS - and none of their products were tested. So why not? And I’m not forgetting that at one point between 3 (confirmed) and 5 (probable) out of the eight mods on the BOS message board were sources. I know this because I had my own forum on SteroidSuperBoard (remember?) and 3 of them advertised in the classifieds (one did so under 2 different names). Clearly there are a lot of vested interests here, and I would be hesitant to really give much credence to these types of tests unless a lot of those interests were put away.

My whole point here is that….well, things aren’t what they seem. I’ve got nothing at all against Llewellyn, but I don’t see how you can earn income from advertising sources, and have sources as contributors to your book and magazine - and then perform anything resembling an objective lab test in that industry.

Just my .02.